Though the work he produced throughout his life was important, it's equally important to note that many historians believe that Plato was a frequent participant in homosexual escapades throughout his life. According to Diogenes, Plato was originally named Aristocles (Greek: Αριστοκλης, Aristokles), but his wrestling coach, Ariston of Argos gave him the nickname Platon, because of his athletic figure.

Plato wrote the following question and answer sometime around 350 BC:

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Is the world created or uncreated?—that is the first question.

Created, I reply, being visible and tangible and having a body, and therefore sensible; and if sensible, then created; and if created, made by a cause, and the cause is the ineffable father of all things, who had before him an eternal archetype.[2]

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Writings

At some point in antiquity, it became the tradition to arrange Plato's writings, or what are called dialogues in groups of four called, "tetralogies."